This report is based on the results of student surveys collected during the years 1997 to 2000 from students who took the Introduction to Sociology telecourse at Utah Valley Community College. With a response rate of 45 percent, 231 students completed the survey. The survey was designed to (1) track enrollments; (2) provide a value-added measure…

Suggests seven questions community colleges should ask when considering a prospective telecourse, which relate to the telecourse package, how the course is organized, the target audience, instructional goals and objectives, course content, product quality, and course integration. Advocates extensive assessment and evaluation prior to telecourse…

Describes a model for planning, producing, and evaluating instructional television for the adult learner, which involves the interaction of faculty, television professionals, and students in the curricular content planning and the development of television scripts. A method of formative evaluation using student input is also presented, and results…

A stage in the development of new courses is discussed. Advice is given to course teams in the social sciences faculty at the Open University (England) on arranging for course team review of drafts of new courses. Several methods are discussed briefly: the traditional method of circulating drafts in the course team and having a discussion with the…

Three objectives are examined in this report: (1) to outline concisely some of the educational questions that course planning teams may wish to address in the early stages of course planning; (2) to provide a short list of resources, principally from the Open University's Institute of Educational Technology (IET), that may aid in course team…

A distance-learning personnel-preparation course on transdisciplinary services for students with low incidence disabilities was developed through collaboration among four Kentucky institutions of higher learning. The course, "Transdisciplinary Services to Students with Deafblindness and Other Multiple Disabilities," was delivered to…

"Making It Count," a multimedia computer course designed to be offered on public television for college credit at the sophomore level, was offered by the State University of Nebraska in 1975. The course was developed by the Boeing Computer Services. The course enrollment was 79, with 64 enrolled for credit. The mean student age was 36.5,…